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...Peace Corpsmen seemed to have taken the manual's lesson to heart. Ar riving in Accra last week, the 50 young teachers found the city in deep mourning over the death of Nana Kwabena Kena II, Ghana's high commissioner to India. Kena's body had arrived just before the Peace Corpsmen landed. The officials who welcomed them were in a somber mood, but the young teachers moved them deeply by singing, in Twi, the anthem Yen Ara Asase Ni (Land of Our Birth). Said U.S. Ambassador Francis Russell: "I know that they will establish deep...
...soon begin. "We control the kitchens, the mines, the shops, the airways-everything," he cried. Kaunda insisted that the "master plan" would be peaceful: "We will not lift a stone, a panga, a club, a spear." But next day he was off again on another trip, this time to Accra and talks with Ghana's rambunctious Kwame Nkrumah, who not only advocates violence, if necessary, to sweep the white man out of Africa, but has received hundreds of tons of Soviet arms to help achieve the purpose...
...Vice Premier is recognized by the Communist bloc (and Ghana) as the Congo's legitimate ruler. Only last month, Nkrumah talked publicly of restoring the "balance of armaments" in the Congo if the Belgians continued to aid Katanga's Moise Tshombe. Nkrumah and his vigorous aides in Accra's African Affairs Bureau may also have plans to pump guns into explosive Angola, perhaps into white-led states such as Northern and Southern Rhodesia and South Africa as well...
...such ambitious states as the U.A.R., Guinea and Mali, but their influence is destined to wane, in the long run, as Ghana's star rises. The new phase of the liberation movement, the paper went on, will receive its "inspiration" and "arms" from the Soviet Union-flowing through Accra to the rest of Africa...
...House? No Car? Nkrumah's Cabinet was stunned and indignant, for almost everyone in high position has taken advantage of "freedom" to arrange some lucrative deals on the side. And why not? asked Minister of Transport and Communications Krobo ("Crowbar") Edusei, who has acquired four mansions in Accra since he became a government minister. Before independence he used to earn $22 a month as a debt collector for a newspaper; now he earns nearly $1,400. "When I receive my salary am I expected to throw it into the sea?" he demanded. "I must not build a house...